Accessing wisdom is tricky. Acting on it is even more hazardous. It involves knowing ourselves and our tendency to deny and deflect. Today’s passages hold up a mirror, not to discourage, but correct.

How fleeting my life
Like a shade, it passes by
But I would be known
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Broken covenant
By you who think you know best
Sit back and suffer!
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Judging another
You will thrust forth your finger
With three pointing back!
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